President Trump says he thinks it's important to have nine Supreme Court justices because he thinks the 2020 election will end up at the court
U.S. President Donald Trump attends a veterans event in the East Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., September 23, 2020. REUTERS/Tom Brenner
“I think this will end up in the Supreme Court and I think it’s very important that we have nine justices,” Trump said when asked if a full complement of justices was needed to handle any potential challenges to the Nov. 3 election between him and Democrat Joe Biden. “This scam that the Democrats are pulling, it’s a scam, the scam will be before the United States Supreme Court, and I think having a 4-4 situation is not a good situation,” he said.
Trump is moving quickly to nominate a successor to liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died on Friday, and his fellow Republicans in the Senate say they could hold a vote before the election. That would seal a 6-3 conservative majority on the court.On Monday, he met at the White House with Judge Amy Coney Barrett of the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, who is considered a leading contender for the job.
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